William Friedkin Articles
Linda Blair's Oscar Chances Nuked
Linda Blair in William Friedkin's The Exorcist Natalie Portman Dance-Double Controversy Predecessor: Linda Blair's THE EXORCIST Voice and Body Doubles Considering all the work Mercedes McCambridge put into The Exorcist, it's hard to believe she would have refused credit for it. In any case, Warner Bros. finally gave her on-screen credit after more prints of the film were released to theaters. Even so, McCambridge was [...]
Natalie Portman Dance-Double Controversy Predecessor: THE EXORCIST's Linda Blair-Mercedes McCambridge Demon Voice
Linda Blair's face, Mercedes McCambridge's voice in William Friedkin's The Exorcist Much like Natalie Portman's out-of-wedlock pregnancy issue had a predecessor — in the Ingrid Bergman-Roberto Rossellini affair back in 1950 — something similar to the Portman-Sarah Lane-Black Swan Best Actress Academy Award controversy took place several decades ago, but with radically different results. "Having reaped a huge financial success with The Exorcist, Director William [...]
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS: Most Important Religion Films of All Time
A list of the 50 Most Important Religion Films of All Time is now online at Film Snobbery, which is paying tribute to "the union of the sacred and cinematic" in celebration of Epiphany (Jan. 6), the final day of the Christmas holiday season. Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ is not the #1 film on the list. Instead, that position belongs to Cecil [...]